The following seven brief, yet complex and rich texts are from the Great Books Anthology, "Talking Service." We discussed purchasing the books in June, but did not. So, physical copies will need to be made by each teacher. If you don't already have a master hard copy I'll leave a "master copy" in my box in case anyone still needs one (please copy it and leave in my box.)
Possible Texts
by Grade-level
We are NOT limited to using just the texts at each grade-level. 6th can use all seven texts, for example. And the QTEL sequence of lessons calls for using A Bed for The Night (6th grade) and The Lamb and the Pine Cone (7th grade) as the first two texts, which the 8th grade will also use. So teachers should make their own decisions, perhaps as a grade-level. But this may be helpful and it represents the consensus thinking at a July meeting of Language A teachers at all grade-levels (Scott, Jennifer, Bobbe, Emma, Sue, Francisco).
6th
A bed for The Night, Bertolt Brecht
Theme for English B, Langston Hughes
7th
The Lamb and the Pine Cone, Pablo Neruda
A Gift of Love, Martin Luther King Jr.
8th
Selection from Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Perhaps the most complex of all texts)
Fellowship, Franz Kafka
Earliest Impressions, Jane Addams
They are excellent texts for Shared Inquiry discussions, Socratic Seminars, etc.
The Martin Luther King Essay was wonderful and worth adding if we can locate it, but is perhaps not in the public domain...
Here's another idea: JFK's inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
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For a review or introduction to SHARED INQUIRY see link below. Great primer on Shared Inquiry. Includes basic "rules," FAQ, emphasizes the role of "interpretive questions," explains three types of questions
Talking Service Texts
The following seven brief, yet complex and rich texts are from the Great Books Anthology, "Talking Service." We discussed purchasing the books in June, but did not. So, physical copies will need to be made by each teacher. If you don't already have a master hard copy I'll leave a "master copy" in my box in case anyone still needs one (please copy it and leave in my box.)by Grade-level
Theme for English B, Langston Hughes
A Gift of Love, Martin Luther King Jr.
(Perhaps the most complex of all texts)
Fellowship, Franz Kafka
Earliest Impressions, Jane Addams
They are excellent texts for Shared Inquiry discussions, Socratic Seminars, etc.
A gift of love
http://books.google.com/books?id=qnoc3JhV5iUC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=a+gift+of+love+martin+l+king&source=bl&ots=qn6yFJhbip&sig=5IlCOVRqHbM64xh6qMUEBIkgIbA&hl=en&ei=Qnn6TaiXMc_YiAL1k-GCBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
A bed for the night
http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2006/03/a_bed_for_the_n.html
Theme for English b
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/English_B.html
Earliest impressions ( link to the whole text)
http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/2hh1.html
Reveries of the solitary walker (whole text)
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fprousseau.htm
Fellowship
Could not find The Lamb and the Pinecone
The Martin Luther King Essay was wonderful and worth adding if we can locate it, but is perhaps not in the public domain...
Here's another idea: JFK's inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."
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For a review or introduction to SHARED INQUIRY see link below.
Great primer on Shared Inquiry. Includes basic "rules," FAQ, emphasizes the role of "interpretive questions," explains three types of questions
http://www.greatbooks.org/tutorial/index.html
(If this doesn't connect, just Google search "Great Books"+"shared inquiry"